Mark Twain Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Religion Quotes

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

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It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

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I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

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It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

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Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

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A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

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...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

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In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

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Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

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A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

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Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

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It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

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I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

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A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

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Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

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